Re: User Name in OS X
Re: User Name in OS X
- Subject: Re: User Name in OS X
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:55:27 -0700
On 10/24/02 1:46 AM, "bill" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> finger `logname` | grep "Login:" | awk -F: '{print $3}'
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> Just out of interest, since I'm unfamiliar with this one. Are those grave
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> accents around 'logname', like this `logname`, or has the mailing list
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> server changed them from something else?
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Paul,
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They're grave accents (ASCII character 96). The usage is to pass the
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standard output of command in between grave accents to the preceding
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command.
Thanks bill and others. In other words, they're similar to parentheses in
AppleScript where the parentheses contain an AppleScript statement.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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